To think that this is not a good drink for a small child

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Went in to town with DS2 today and saw a woman put a can of redbull in to her child's bottle, child must have been about 18 months old
Bet bed time at their house is going to be fun.

Jesus That woman Is either very brave or very stupid, quite possibly both

YANBU.

Jesus wept, nothing wrong with little fizzy drink now and then, but a high caffeine energy drink for a small child. FFS.

her child her choice ...... just glad it wasnt my child, they dont need encouraging to bounce off walls

did the toddler have a Gregg's sausage roll in the other hand?

Are you sure? That could actually be quite dangerous, the levels of caffeine in those drinks can affect you quite badly. Why on earth would anyone give that stuff to a baby?

Doesnt redbull have an age recommendation on it?

My ds (11yo at the time) picked up an energy drink in a home bargain type place last year. He drank it and came up in a huge rash, burning/itchy skin, swollen face etc. The can said not suitable fo under 12s.

Utterly irresponsible.

that stuff gives me heart palpitations. i actually collapsed once after drinking a big gulp of it and the HPs kicking in really quickly after. never again. would definitely never give it to a child!

Wow! Did it have vodka in it too?

Seriously?

YANBU

I thoughtyou were meant to be 16 to drink red bull due to the taurine and level of caffine

Maybe it wasn't her child, but the child of someone she doesn't like much

her child, her choice? This makes it ok? What a load of shite.

I'm imagining what my children would be like after a redbull. I'd need some kind of hook device to get them off the ceiling.

Her child, her choice? Erm, no I don't think so.

Would it be ok for her to give the baby alcohol, a vindaloo, a shit sandwich or a punch in the face?

I think the her child, her choice argument works in terms of parenting decisions etc but giving a baby red bull is dangerous.

Her child, her choice in many instances, but that type of drink could harm a small child so not in this one.

A vindaloo would be fine IMO

Jeeeeeeesus. My judgey pants are hoiked right up.

When I worked in shops I refused to sell any of those drinks to under 16s. They can cause allsorts of problems, an adult I know was taken to hospital after his heartrate went haywire after drinking 2 of them.

Apart from the fact that the child shouldn't be drinking redbull at that age, she put a fizzy drink into a baby bottle - poor kid will have no teeth by the time it's 5.

Ugh, that is horrible.

This did not happen.

I've seen kids that age with a can of redbull before. Mother was too lazy to put it in the bottle.

I seen a woman pass a 1yr-ish a bottle of lucazade energy while pushing him in pram. I was inches away of asking her why? I think i read there is like 13 tea spoons of sugar and god knows how much caffine and they wonder why there is so much obesity in children :O( bad times

YANBU. That's absolutely disgusting. Poor child

Could it just be ignorance?

The poster above mentioned lucozade. When I was a little girl, that was what you gave people who were ill. It came in a special yellow bottle, and I think it was wrapped in yellow cellophane. To some people that would mean it was healthy. It was advertised as being high in glucose and good for you. Not everyone knows that glucose is sugar. So, perhaps that mother really believes she is giving the child a 'healthy' drink.

For the lucozade one, the doctor recommended giving that to my cousin when he was about 1 after he had been ill (can't remember exactly what with). That one could of been on doctors orders!